2025 Spring Golf Tournament at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley
The 2025 Spring Golf Tournament took place at the world-class TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley. This stunning venue was home to the 2025 RBC Canadian Open in a couple of weeks later!
We played the Hoot course, a beautiful layout that offers a mix of tough challenges and scoring opportunities from start to finish. Drawing inspiration from iconic Pine Valley and the rugged wasteland courses of the Carolinas, the Hoot provides an 18-hole journey full of breathtaking views and risk-reward holes that test golfers’ mental and physical abilities. With its wide fairways, expansive waste bunkers, and approachable yet challenging greens, the Hoot delivered a memorable experience for golfers of all skill levels.
Two awards were presented at the tournament.
2025 Lifetime Achievement Award
Steve Gusterson was recognized with the OGMA Lifetime Achievement Award. Here is what OGMA President Blake Sanders had to say about the honour:
It’s my pleasure to introduce the winner of the 2025 OGMA Lifetime Achievement Award, Steve Gusterson. I’ll tell you a little about Steve.
He was introduced to the glass and metal industry in the summer of 1974, which for those of you who don’t want to do the math was 51 years ago, and LOOONG before a lot of the people in this room were even born, when his best friend’s neighbour was looking for summer student labour. The neighbour was Bruce Peterman, the plant foreman at Alumicor Limited in Agincourt, Ontario, and that’s where the journey began.
Just a few years later, Steve found himself well engaged in this industry and earned his trade ticket working at glass shops such as Summerhill Glass and Cakebread Kenny Glass in Toronto, Trans Canada Highway Glass in Vancouver, and with the installations teams at Alumicor’s contracts division.
In the early 1980s, he transitioned to office duties at Alumicor where, besides the mundane duties of drafting and project co-ordination, he had the opportunity to travel the country, site measuring projects where the side benefits included riding in a Leopard tank, sitting behind the controls of a Snowbird Tutor jet, and discovering a lost cache of artifacts at the Supreme Court of Newfoundland building.
In 1985, Steve pulled up stakes and moved to Alberta where he and his business partner, Bill Larnie, became the exclusive Alberta distributor for a manufacturer that was later to become Windspec.
At the end of the ’80s, he returned to Ontario and to Alumicor, becoming the Contracts Manager for the Window Division, then moving on to a sales role, eventually becoming the architectural representative and, in 2015, the Vice President of Sales for Ontario.
Steve is a trusted resource for the industry, delivering seminars, lunch and learns, and presentations to industry professionals and those looking to get into the industry. In recent years, with thoughts of retirement looming, Steve has worked closely with his colleagues at Alumicor on a succession plan that leaves him now doing what he loves best: working almost exclusively with the design community, helping them to bring their visions to life. Working three days each week is an added benefit!
Outside of work, Steve managed to find time for volunteering; more than twenty years with both the Ontario Glass & Metal Association and Construction Specifications Canada; fifteen years with the Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee for the town of Whitby, and twelve years on the Program Advisory Committee for Durham College.
For the OGMA, he was a director for more than two decades, was instrumental in getting the current website off the ground back in the day and was the first to oversee the Awards of Excellence program, which he managed prior to 2024 from inception. He also worked with Zana Gordon from what is now FENBC on the Ontario Glazing Systems Manual on behalf of OGMA. Prior to retiring from the Board, he actively attended and hosted Board meetings, and assisted with OGMA events and seminars.
For CSC, he held the roles of Toronto Chapter Chair and Chapter Director, taught the Certified Technical Representative course, sits on technical committees, authors columns for Construction Canada magazine, and has been bestowed with two of the association’s highest honours: election to the College of Fellows and the Life Membership award.
After a 5 decades long career, I repeat 5 decades long career, Steve has definitely earned his place among the OGMA’s best and brightest!
Steve is looking forward to spending more time travelling with his wife, Lori, and to cataloguing his collection of antique military artifacts.
Congratulations, Steve Gusterson, on receiving the OGMA Lifetime Achievement Award. Steve, please come up and receive your award.
2025 Spring Bursary Award
Joseph Le was awarded the 2025 Spring Bursary Award. Here is what OGMA President Blake Sanders had to say about the honour:
On behalf of the Ontario Glass & Metal Association and the Architectural Glass and Metal Contractors Association, I am pleased to extend our sincere congratulations to Joseph Le on being awarded the 2025 OGMA/AGMCA Annual Spring Bursary.
Joseph was selected by the training staff of the Finishing Trades Institute of Ontario to receive our associations’ joint $1,000 bursary—an award presented annually to recognize the most outstanding glazing apprentice for the term. This initiative reflects our ongoing commitment to supporting the development of skilled trades professionals and acknowledging excellence within the glazing industry.
Joseph’s instructors, James Clifford and Mike Pentz, nominated him for his exemplary attitude toward learning, as well as his initiative in mentoring fellow apprentices. His commitment to both personal growth and peer support has set him apart, and his impressive 90.96% average in the Advanced Class is a testament to his dedication and hard work.
Joseph began in the glazing industry seven years ago, working hard to build his reputation. Despite challenges, he stayed dedicated to growing and learning, earning a role as a Service Technician at Fairview Glass & Mirror Ltd.
This trade has given him a meaningful career and helped him develop leadership skills that he uses in his community basketball league, Viet Hoops. The bursary funds will sponsor his team’s participation in the All-Vietnamese North American Basketball Tournament in Houston, Texas, over the Labour Day weekend.
Congratulations once again on being named the Glazing Apprentice Honour Student for the term. We look forward to your continued success in the trade.
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